Shifts in soil and plant functional diversity along an altitudinal gradient in the French Alps.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Altitude integrates changes in environmental conditions that determine shifts in vegetation, including temperature, precipitation, solar radiation and edaphogenetic processes. In turn, vegetation alters soil biophysical properties through litter input, root growth, microbial and macrofaunal interactions. The belowground traits of plant communities modify soil processes in different ways, but it is not known how root traits influence soil biota at the community level. We collected data to investigate how elevation affects belowground community traits and soil microbial and faunal communities. This dataset comprises data from a temperate climate in France and a twin study was performed in a tropical zone in Mexico.

Data description

The paper describes soil physical

SUBMITTER: Stokes A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7871617 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature